Performers Quotes · Page 5

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

— Norah Jones

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

— Patti Smith

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

— Mark Russell

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.

— George Carlin

I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.

— Allison Holker

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

— Tony Bennett

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

— Elton John

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line…

— Terry Eagleton

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

— Eddie Izzard

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork…

— John C. Maxwell

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick,…

— Criss Angel

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on…

— David Finckel

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their…

— Mary Ruwart

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the…

— Daniel Goleman

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to…

— Penelope Hobhouse

I think that people are taking our artistry a little more serious compared to when we started. They are of course fascinated…

— BeBe Zahara Benet

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when…

— Paul Merton

Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the…

— Kristen Stewart

I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that,…

— Kristen Stewart

The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's…

— Zola Jesus

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that…

— Willem Dafoe

There's so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don't get any better after the age of about…

— Robert Plant

A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think…

— David Cerone

We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing,…

— Wayne White

Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to…

— Robertson Davies

Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also…

— Maryrose Wood

What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women…

— Crystal Eastman

I've worked with Emily Skinner and I've seen Linda Balgord's work. I saw Harvey Keitel at the call-backs. But generally I don't…

— Max von Essen

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was…

— Ray Wylie Hubbard

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

— Fergie

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

— Alban Berg

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

— Richard Widmark

If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

— Thomas Haden Church

Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.

— Chris Jericho

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

— Luke Bryan

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

— Sondre Lerche

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

— Rose McGowan